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Old 07-30-2007, 03:15 PM   #1
Tom Edgerton Tom Edgerton is offline
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SB-- Thanks...Lotus Tom it is.

Richard--Thanks...he's a little more "arranged" than I normally like, but again, this is part of a pair of companion paintings.

I will take it to the framer's this afternoon, so I re-worked the bothersome hand a little. I don't know if this grab next to the window light will show the solutions--they're very subtle--but the problems were:

1) Too much contrast in that area in general, especially in the shadows of the hand and shorts

2) I made the rookie mistake of over-delineating between the fingers and overmodeling on the whole. Probably from fatigue.

Overall, I softened edges (they were sharper than the nearer hand, obviously a problem), reduced contrast and had another look at the outside contour around it.

Sometimes it's better to set a painting aside for a couple of days and come back to it. I hope this helps anyone struggling with the same thing.
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Old 07-30-2007, 03:50 PM   #2
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Tom,

What a great portrait! I must have missed this entirely when I was in Maine for a few days in the beginning of July. So glad Sharon brought the thread back up. It's beautifully painted, as everyone has said in so many ways already. I just want to add that the glimpse of this boy's personality in his sparkling, attractive expression is what makes me feel he's a real person. I'm sure people will marvel how you modeled the figure and got the flesh tones just right, etc,, and the parents will gloat and brag about how great you are (which you are!), but in the end they will treasure this one and enjoy looking at it over and over because of the life in that boy.
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